Nick Cave's Grinderman finish second album

Grinderman have completed recording their second album.

Bandmember Warren Ellis told The Quietus that the group's new record is a marked departure from their 2007 debut.

"We finished the Grinderman album three weeks ago," he said. "I mixed it over the summer. We've still got to do the track ordering, and a few tweaks on the mastering, but the album's there.

"It's very different from [Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' latest album] Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! and it's very different from the first Grinderman album. There's an attitude in there that's similar, but sonically it's got some pretty weird things going on."

Ellis continued: "It's kind of like stoner rock meets Sly Stone via Amon Duul. Nick's got a different thing going on with the lyrics than he would have from the Bad Seeds. Less sex? I wouldn't say that."

Ellis and Cave recently collaborated on the soundtrack to the latter's second novel The Death Of Bunny Munro, which was released yesterday.